THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, April 25, 1918. FLASHES.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 25 April 1918, Page 2

THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO With which is incorporated "The Kaipara Advertiser & Waitemata Chronicle" HELENSVILLE, THURSDAY, April 25, 1918. FLASHES.

Shooting season opens on Wednesday May 1, and some good bags are anticipated. Several important trespass notices appear in this issue.

At the last meeting of the Helensville Domain Board it was decided to raise the price of the ordinary bath tickets from 6d to 9d.

A crowded house greeted the Maori antertainers last night, and they met with an enthusiastic reception. We hope the next is not far off. A full report will appear next issue.

The North Auckland Farmers' Co-op, will hold a clearing sale at Parakai on Monday, April 29th, on behalf of Mrs T. New, who is leaving the district. A big range furniture and effects, including piano, phonograph, etc., will be sold.

The Kaipara Hospital and Charitable Aid Board is submitting proposals to the Minister for Hospitals for an Old Men's Home, a Maternity Home, and general improvemerts to the Hospital at Te Kopuru, involving an expenditure of approximately £10,000.

Sir James Allen has intimated that the re-enlistment of returned soldiers for further s service abroad will be accepted. The authorities now state that these men will remain in camp only long enough to get their equipment.

While the syndicate gave up the whaling industry at the West Coast Beach (near Dargaville), some of the original members, with outside assistance have carried, on the boiling down of the re-stranded whales, and a fine lot of oil is being won. The men engaged hope to do well out of the enterprise, despite the first disaster that overtook the effort.

A good story comes from the front A badly-wounded man was rushed to the dressing Almost unconscious with pain, he fought stubbornly when the doctor tried to take his coat off. At laßt the garment was freed from the painrwracked body, and the doctor had tiirned to toss it into a corner. " Don't throw it, doctor," murmured the feeble voice, " don't throw it—there's a bomb in the pocket."

A manufacturing firm at Dewsbury, England, received a postcard from a German at Lofthouse Prison Camp asking for price lists and patterns of "flannels, satins, silks, etc., suitable for smart pyjamas." In reply the firm sent him a copy of the following solemn oath which they have sworn :—" To mark our horror and disgust of the methods of Germany since July, 1914, we swear that we will not: " (a) knowingly purchase anything made in Germany; (b) transact business with or through a German for five years after peace is declared. So help us God." ,